{
  "id": 11466626,
  "title": "Inside the group chats of the trash-talking NSW young Liberals who dreamed big – then imploded",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/02/inside-the-group-chats-of-the-trash-talking-nsw-young-liberals-who",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-02T15:00:15.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian Australia",
    "slug": "the-guardian-australia",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2026/oct/03/icac-young-liberals-group-chats-trash-talking-ntwnfb"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Reformers were once ‘twentysomething-year-old guys’ hoping to shift the NSW party to the right. Their messages show how it all went wrong In July 2018, a group of young Sydney Liberal party members calling themselves the Reformers were riding high. “Great News, God has granted us a victory and we have officially taken the Coffs Harbour branch away from the left wing,” Robert Assaf, one of the…",
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  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}